The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: drivers."
"It would hold back our drive too much to have to stop and break
rollways," explained Orde.
The next morning they took the early train for Monrovia, where were
situated the big mills and the offices of the nine other lumber
companies. Within an hour they had descended at the small frame
terminal station, and were walking together up the village street.
Monrovia was at that time a very spread-out little place of perhaps
two thousand population. It was situated a half mile from Lake
Michigan, behind the sparsely wooded sand hills of its shore. From
the river, which had here grown to a great depth and width, its main
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: Who hath filled all with width as man's Upholder, surpassing
floods
and rivers in his greatness.
2 Surya is he: throughout the wide expanses shall Indra turn
him,
swift as car-wheels, hither,
Like a stream resting not but ever active he hath destroyed,
with
light, the blackhued darkness.
3 To him I sing a holy prayer, incessant new, matchless, common
to the
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